One, you just used a slur, congrats. Two, Irish law is far more certain than Twitter and it says no. Three, even if you did qualify, the fact you're acting so entitled means you can fuck right off. Ireland doesn't want or need you.
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Cop on lad, the word can be a slur, its also a synonym for balls. Also there are far more Irish outside Ireland than in, as a people we take advantage of the opportunity and freedom provided by other nations. I dont see entitlement here, just frustration.
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You're assuming she wanted an Irish passport to move here. She just wants one so she has an EU passport when going on holidays. That's entitlement. The Irish who move abroad do so to work, enjoy new cultures and bring something to the country they go to. She isnt going to do that
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Entitlement is different to wanting something dude. You are assuming nothing she does already impacts Ireland or its culture.
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Screaming "I JUST WANT A NON BRITISH PASSPORT" shows that she doesn't give two fucks about any country so long as she gets one of their passports. She doesn't care about Ireland yet is throwing a fit because Ireland is saying no to her. That's textbook entitlement mate.
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She is HAVING A LAUGH! And you know she is! She’s having A LAUGH at HER expense! and you know she is! A LAUGH at the PATHETIC STATE Brits with proud Irish ancestry, proud to be European and desperate about Brexit find themselves in! And you know she is!
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Hahah Elizabeth, I love you. Thank God someone still remembers the LIGHT HEARTED SELF-DEPRECATING HUMOUR we used to have, before the internet SET ITSELF ON FIRE
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I think you should edit your post, the second word is highly offensive to the Irish Traveller community
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Hmmmmm, only insulting in certain context - and it's clearly not being used in that context here. People are just a little too sensitive these days
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Caitlin wants an Irish passport, I am assuming she doesn't want to use what is a racist slur in Ireland. It's not sensitivity, it's information
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FYI it’s also a descriptor for someone who works in a knackery, or the equivalent to the Aussie word boggan. Context is everything.
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Not really. All derivations of "knacker," are from "an eichoir" which is both the pejorative term for an Irish traveller and the slang term for someone who slaughters and renders broken-down horses. Because they were historically very often the same people.
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"The word is of uncertain origin, possibly from a dialectal survival of a Scandinavian word represented by Old Norse hnakkur "saddle," related to hnakki "back of the neck," and thus possibly related to neck (n.). Most often used in weakened sense of "to tire out" (1883)"
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I've seen that explanation in the past, but i don't find it terribly convincing. The word "possibly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. But, you know, etymology is an imprecise discipline, so whatever gets you through the night.
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What is well-established is the direct equivalence in the Irish language between the word for someone who slaughters and renders broken-down horses and the pejorative term for traveller, and the fact that "knacker," to refer to a traveller is considered hate speech.
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Just a thot tho why don’t u get the form and read all the conditions and see if any apply.
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Because, OBVIOUSLY, my Tweet was designed to be read by Dana and Bono, who would then blag me in *taps forehead*
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My husband believes he is the only Brummie without any heritage elsewhere, he is also furious
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No, he is not alone, apparently I can be traced back to the stone age or something, I will probably be a UKIP MEP in the next life knowing my luck.
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